Naslov
Croatian Language Standardization and the Production of Nationalized Political Subjects through Language? Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities

Autori
Hodges, Andrew ; Abercrombie, Amelia ; Balažev, Marina ; Costa, James ; Kapović, Mate ; Marković, Jelena ; Petrović, Tanja ; Spasić, Ivana

Izvornik
Etnološka tribina : godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva (0351-1944) 46 (2016), 39; 3-91

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
language policy ; activism ; linguistic anthropology ; Croatia

Sažetak
Th is paper focuses on language policy and social changes which have taken place in Croatia during and since the 1991-5 war. I fi rst describe the historical background, the war and the nineties being marked by excesses of linguistic purism and prescriptivism, alongside the formation of post-Yugoslav states in which national belonging was key to defi ning citizenship. Th rough examining the relationship between changing linguistic and social orders, I raise a number of issues for discussion. I argue that the legal framework of minority language rights has consolidated and legitimated a nationalist imaginary, increasing social divisions and reinforcing hierarchies asserted by some nationalists between national categories. For this reason, I suggest that the uncritical endorsement of or promotion of linguistic diversity can be dangerous. Second, in an activist-anthropological vein, I discuss possible reasons why academics trained in the social sciences and humanities have rarely participated in sociolinguistic debates concerning the new Croatian standard. I suggest such discussions could greatly benefi t from interventions by social scientists, so as to bring sociolinguistics into contact with other strands of the social sciences and humanities and move away from what I believe to be a problematic policy focus on “identity”.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

Napomena
Also available in Croatian/Također dostupan na
hrvatskom.

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